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I gotta say, I like the US cover a little better. That strip of space helps it to be not so...plain (though not by much).

The JP BD cover was already odd to begin with, since nearly every Tenchi cover ever in Japan or the US was fairly busy. Then Japan went all minimalist on the BD set. Not that its a bad thing, but its just a little too plain for my tastes.

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I gotta say, I like the US cover a little better. That strip of space helps it to be not so...plain (though not by much).

The JP BD cover was already odd to begin with, since nearly every Tenchi cover ever in Japan or the US was fairly busy. Then Japan went all minimalist on the BD set. Not that its a bad thing, but its just a little too plain for my tastes.

I do agree on that point, I think the little strip of space is a nice touch, It was more of a "sarcastic" response to Nobuyuki saying mayhem, however, I don't think any of the covers until the FUNimation re-releases (OVA3 and GXP included) are really busy in a negative sense (IE They flow together well)

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- Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:59 pm#12994
I didn't mean that it affected them in a negative way, just that many of the covers seemed to feature several characters or group shots while the BD-Box... didn't. The plain white background didn't help either.

By now I'm sure you've all seen the cover of the box set so I will forgo showing you that in favor of showing you the reverse side of the box, which includes the most comically inaccurate "Continuity Map" I have EVER seen. Seriously, it's like they didn't even try to get the continuities straight!Now we come to the inside of the box itself. While the outer cardboard sleeve is nice and glossy, the plastic of the case itself is extremely flimsy. Plus, I don't like that they were too lazy to print up a little guide booklet to put in the inner sleeve. Instead they just printed the episode list on the reverse of the cover lol.At this point you may be thinking, like I was, that the inside of this box set is pretty damn disappointing, but then we come to this beautiful sight in the back that ALMOST makes it all better!Now that we all have gotten an eyeful of that, let's turn to the DVD's themselves. Here are the Menus of each of the four discs.As you can see, function over form is the name of the game here. Although I have to say that the background art of the last two menus are pretty sweet! (especially that Kiyone x Tenchi one )I do have one MAJOR complaint about the menus, however, and that is the horrendously bad background music they chose to use! Rather than get something that makes sense/is pleasing to the ear, they chose to use that Godawful elevator music from the FUNI trailer for the box set! UGH!

Now to everybody's biggest question: The extras. Short answer: there are none. Actually, you do get two cool things which are textless versions of the opening and ending vids of the show, but I mean they have been available on YT for years now... Other than that all you get is the stupid funi trailer mentioned above, and a few trailers for other funi sets.

All in all, this is a cheap box set for a cheap price. I suppose that for the price, this is a very reasonable box set, I just wish there were more extra features. Also, that star map on the back is just awful!Verdict: 7/10.

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I don't think that map is so bad though. I've seen people screw up the Tenchi continuities much worse than that. The only thing really wrong with it is that they didn't connect Geminar to GXP (despite them even mentioning the connection in the announcement PR report). I do find it rather odd that they're using the name Tenchi Muyo in Love 2 for the third movie instead of Tenchi Forever. Its either a mistake, or they're planning to go with the original JP name which will undoubtably cause some confusion.

EDIT:Oh wait, I see now that they forgot OVA 2 or they're are just lumping it in with OVA 1, but then why bother putting the one in the dot?

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I don't think that map is so bad though. I've seen people screw up the Tenchi continuities much worse than that. The only thing really wrong with it is that they didn't connect Geminar to GXP (despite them even mentioning the connection in the announcement PR report). I do find it rather odd that they're using the name Tenchi Muyo in Love 2 for the third movie instead of Tenchi Forever. Its either a mistake, or they're planning to go with the original JP name which will undoubtably cause some confusion.

EDIT:Oh wait, I see now that they forgot OVA 2 or they're are just lumping it in with OVA 1, but then why bother putting the one in the dot?

Fans screwing up a map is far different then the official R1 company haphazardly throwing a "continuity map" together that holes can be shot through before it's mass release, lol and yes, the OVA map is just a mess

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